- The coronavirus crisis reduced the production volume of the vast majority of car manufacturers in the first quarter of 2020 but did not upset the ranking of the top twenty, each having suffered a comparable impact, with a few exceptions. If we exclude heavy goods vehicles, the Toyota group remains the world's leading manufacturer ahead of Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan, as in the first quarter of 2019.

- Behind these three leaders, a notable change, the Hyundai-Kia group passes in front of the GM group which is collapsing in China.

- Suddenly, the Ford group is behind the GM group globally, which had not happened in ages. GM thus fell to fifth place in the world, while this manufacturer remained the world's leading manufacturer between 1927 and 2004.

- Behind, Honda retains its seventh place, ahead of FCA which has not suffered too much (it is not present in China) and PSA which has suffered a lot, even if it is very little present in China. The European market (main PSA market) suffered much more from the coronavirus crisis than the American market (main FCA market). Suzuki maintains its positions in tenth place, ahead of BMW and Daimler. Mazda supplants Geely but their volumes are very close. Subaru, which is one of the rare manufacturers to progress in 2020, passes Tata which suffers at the same time from the decline of the European market and that of the Indian market, while Subaru is not very present neither on the one nor on the other. Note that Tesla increases its production volume in 2020 compared to 2019, going from 82,000 units in the first quarter of 2019 to 89,000 in the first quarter of 2020.